as a matter of fact

mat·ter (m

a. Something that occupies space and can be perceived by one or more senses; a physical body, a physical substance, or the universe as a whole.

b. Physics Something that has mass and exists as a solid, liquid, gas, or plasma.

2. A specific type of substance: inorganic matter.

3. Discharge or waste, such as pus or feces, from a living organism.

4. Philosophy In Aristotelian and Scholastic use, that which is in itself undifferentiated and formless and which, as the subject of change and development, receives form and becomes substance.

5. The substance of thought or expression as opposed to the manner in which it is stated or conveyed.

6. A subject of concern, feeling, or action: matters of foreign policy; a personal matter. See Synonyms at subject.

7. Trouble or difficulty: What's the matter with your car?

8. An approximated quantity, amount, or extent: The construction will last a matter of years.

9. Something printed or otherwise set down in writing: reading matter.

10. Something sent by mail.

11. Printing

a. Composed type.

b. Material to be set in type.

intr.v. mat·tered, mat·ter·ing, mat·ters

To be of importance: "Love is most nearly itself/When here and now cease to matter" (T.S. Eliot). See Synonyms at count¹.

Idioms:

as a matter of fact

In fact; actually.

for that matter

So far as that is concerned; as for that.

no matter

Regardless of: "Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,/No matter where it's going" (Edna St. Vincent Millay).

[Middle English, from Old French matere, from Latin mteria, wood, timber, matter, from mter, mother (because the woody part was seen as the source of growth); see mter- in Indo-European roots.]

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Adv.

as a matter of fact - in reality or actuality; "in fact, it was a wonder anyone survived"; "painters who are in fact anything but unsophisticated"; "as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father"

in fact, in point of fact

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As a matter of fact we see nothing whole, neither life nor art.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

Thus alteration is a distinct sort of motion; for, if it were not, the thing altered would not only be altered, but would forthwith necessarily suffer increase or diminution or some one of the other sorts of motion in addition; which as a matter of fact is not the case.

The Categories by Aristotle View in context

But, as a matter of fact, it was hardly fair to blame the doctor.

The Shadow Line by Conrad, Joseph View in context

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